WATCH LIVE: Hundreds are attending a private funeral service for Barbara Bush at a church where she and her husband, George H.W. Bush, long worshipped https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/01sxtGrOvi
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"She was strength itself and if her tongue was sometimes sharp, she was as honest with herself as she was with all of us," historian Jon Meacham says of Barbara Bush https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/AjyAk20ueW
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Former President George H.W. Bush listens as presidential historian Jon Meacham delivers eulogy about his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/WTrv7bZch6
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"When we saw her and George together with their five children, with their 17 grandchildren, and seven great-grands, we knew they represented the very best," says Susan Garrett Baker, a long-time friend of Barbara Bush https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/C5amV6pMHE
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"Barbara Bush filled our lives with laughter and joy, and in the case of her family, she was our teacher, our role model on how to live of life with purpose and meaning," Jeb Bush says, beginning eulogy for his mother https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/PAqd7UyLHd
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"Barbara Pierce Bush was real, and that's why people admired her and loved her so," Jeb Bush says in his eulogy for his mother https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/6yzBpKBcdR
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"The last time I was with her I asked her about dying. Was she ready to go, was she sad. Without missing a beat she said, 'Jeb, I believe in Jesus & He is my savior. I don't want to leave your dad, but I know I will be in a beautiful place,'" Jeb Bush says https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/mELy3sFuzo
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"Some books have no true ending. Some offer an epilogue, a hint to imagine who rests beyond the closing chapter," Barbara Bush's longtime pastor says. "In the meantime, until each of our time comes, she would want us to carry on." https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/o9LJFL9R8J
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"I think the thing we can all take away from this is [the Bush family's] devotion to public service. They've held high offices and lower offices, but they always did so with the dignity and respect for those offices that they thought was necessary,"
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Former first lady Barbara Bush's casket will now travel to the Bush Library at Texas A&M University, about 100 miles northwest of Houston, where she will be buried https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/Kco804dU1v
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WATCH: Motorcade passes through Houston's Memorial Park, en route to the Bush Library at Texas A&M University, where former first lady Barbara Bush will be buried https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/zMBlZtpQhF
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MOMENTS AGO: Motorcade arrives at the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, where Barbara Bush will be buried https://cbsn.ws/2K5zBxd pic.twitter.com/aLQIVW9jJh
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Something the TRUMPS & current
@GOP know nothing about.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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To bad our current president doesn't get that
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Great
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#BarbaraBushFuneral#BarbaraBush
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Meacham is a master orator. Ever since his years at the University of the South, he's been a speaking and writing force of nature.
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Beautiful eulogy
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@jmeacham was amazing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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she is sorely missed already, RIP
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